Category: facebook ads

Have you considered featuring a relatable ‘antagonist’ in your ads? Yes, you read that right. February 11, 2019 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We’re now two months into the new year, and as a health and fitness ecommerce brand, we see continuing evidence that there’s never been a better time to use Facebook advertising to connect with new customers and grow a business. That’s because getting healthier or sticking to a specific diet or workout plan is one of the most popular new year’s resolutions — and because people in February are just now trying out those gym memberships, meal plan subscriptions and personal trainers they signed up for in January (in record numbers). Related: The Complete Guide to Getting Started With Facebook Ads That’s why we’re using Facebook Ads — a lot. With your own health or fitness brand, or any brand category, you may find that the Facebook Ads […]

Last year, I published the affiliate marketing traffic sources I was trying in September. The response to that article was fantastic and I got a lot of great feedback from my publishers at PeerFly. This year I am going to follow it up, but I’m also doing something a little different. For 2019, I am publishing the traffic sources I am going to use this year and then I will create blog posts to document my experiences with each one. The traffic sources I am going to try are: Zeropark (push notifications, redirects, and pop) PopAds Bing Ads PropellerAds (push notifications and pops) AdMaven (push notifications) Adsterra (push notifications) RichPush (push notifications) MGID (push notifications and native) EZmob (push notifications) Facebook Ads That is 10 traffic sources I am going to test this year with my affiliate marketing campaigns. I am hoping to test 1 each month. That gives me […]

There are a ton of different traffic sources out there you can run your affiliate marketing campaigns on and one of the easiest things you can do is completely overwhelm yourself by trying to run campaigns at all of them at the same time. I think it’s really important that you choose a traffic source, test a spread of campaigns on that traffic source, optimize your campaigns, and then scale until you hit a ceiling. If you simply setup campaigns on a bunch of different traffic sources all at once you are going to spread yourself too thin. So, what traffic sources do I suggest focusing on based on your experience as an affiliate marketer? I’ve broken down your possible experience level into four different levels. Those levels are Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. Here is an explanation of each level and one traffic source I suggest based on that level. Remember, […]

How to direct link PeerFly offers using Facebook Ads is probably one of the most common questions I get from publishers interested in running affiliate offers on Facebook. Facebook provides a great ad platform that can be very lucrative to affiliates, but it does require some work to get your campaigns up and approved. It’s not as easy as just putting your affiliate link on PropellerAds and waiting for the conversions to come in. If you do not run your ad campaigns properly on Facebook, you can get your ads account suspended pretty easily so it’s important that you know what you’re doing before you give it a try. There are two big steps you need to take to direct link PeerFly offers on Facebook Ads. Once you do these, you will have no trouble getting your campaigns approved, receiving traffic, and hopefully getting conversions! Add a Custom Tracking Domain […]

The trick, with Facebook ads, is to make sure that you’re targeting the right kind of audience with the right kind of offers. May 9, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Facebook sees over 1.4 billion active users a day, with Mark Zuckerberg himself reporting that users spend approximately 50 minutes a day scrolling through Facebook’s suite of apps (Facebook, Messenger and Instagram). That’s a lot of people. Related: Not Getting Results With Your Facebook Ads? Here is Everything You Are Doing Wrong. However, just because people are online and might see your business page doesn’t mean that many people are converting and generating sales for your company. In fact, in order to tap into this enormous audience base, you have to market to them in a way that makes them want to convert. One great way to do this is to create optimized […]

One of my 2017 goals was to create and launch powerful online courses. Learn what went well, what could be improved, and what my plans are for 2018. Pat Flynn December 18, 2017 Last year, when I was setting goals for 2017, I knew that a primary strategy for my business was going to be creating and launching effective and in-depth online courses for the SPI audience. One of the motivating factors for this was to significantly transform the way I generate income. You see, for the past eight or so years of running Smart Passive Income, I’ve generated the majority of my income from affiliate marketing. I wanted to change that in 2017. I needed to add some nuance and diversity into my income portfolio. I needed to add different, and significant, pockets of value. Now, I still think affiliate marketing is a fantastic way to generate income, and […]

Welcome to my June 2017 Monthly Income Report! I’ve got a great one for you this month, as it includes earnings from my recent Smart From Scratch online course launch. But, as always, let me first share what these income reports are all about, for those who may be new. In October 2008, after generating an income online for the first time from my architecture-related business, I decided to share openly how much money I was making, and exactly how it all happened. Since then, I’ve been posting these reports monthly, which you can find here on my income report page. I do this not only to keep track and inspire others, but also as a way to teach lessons along the way. I’ll tell you this, though: I don’t know everything there is to know about online business. I’m always learning, but whether my income goes up, or it […]

Meet Bond. Amanda Bond, also known as The Ad Strategist. I first met Amanda briefly before Traffic and Conversion Summit here in San Diego in February, but I’ve mainly heard about how awesome she is through her colleague and my friend Greg Hickman, who wrote part one to this two-part complete ads and funnels series here on SPI. Greg’s post was titled The Beginner’s Guide to Predictable Marketing Funnels, and helped you define and understand what you wanted traffic to do when it came to your website. Amanda’s follow up is now about how to get that traffic you’re looking for with Facebook Ads—the hot thing that everyone wants to use now, but so few know how to use correctly. Without further delay, here’s Amanda to walk you through it. Let’s get some traffic and convert it! Take it away, Amanda! Ads are sexy. I get it. “Run your own ads on […]

In this guest post, Greg Hickman gives us an in-depth beginner’s guide to predictable marketing funnels. Learn how to set up a reliable system for growth. Pat Flynn May 15, 2017 We’ve been going full steam this month with a load of paid advertising related content, both here on the blog and on the podcast. Before we keep going, however, it’s important that we pull back a little and ask ourselves this question: What are we driving traffic to anyway? A product? A promotion? No. A funnel. We MUST know what our goals are related to the traffic we pay for, or else—and I can say this from experience—you’ll quickly lose money and opportunity. So today, I’m happy to re-introduce Greg Hickman. He’s been on the podcast before way back in Smart Passive Income Podcast Session #65, where he talked about marketing strategies related to mobile, such as SMS and […]

Smart Passive Income Podcast superstars Shane and Jocelyn Sams have returned! It’s been almost three years since they joined me for Episode 122, and today, the Sams duo is back with an update on their online business journey and advertising strategy that I know you’re going to love. Shane and Jocelyn were both teachers before diving into online business. They took their education expertise, including their insider knowledge of what teachers need, and used it to build a wildly successful line of digital products. Their business has since grown to include Flipped Lifestyle, a hub for aspiring online entrepreneurs chasing the passive income lifestyle. They continue to grow their business thanks in part to their clever advertising strategy, and that’s what they’re here to talk about today. Creating lucrative, relevant ads is a great way to draw more eyes and ears to your business while generating passive income. Through smart testing and a […]

It’s Advertising Month here at SmartPassiveIncome.com! I’m kicking things off with a visit from online advertising expert Rick Mulready. Today, Rick is going to focus on growing your business with paid traffic by using an often overlooked platform: Facebook ads. My friend Rick has seventeen years of experience in online advertising, seven of which have been focused on Facebook ads specifically. After all that time in the field, Rick’s come to believe that Facebook ads are the fastest way to grow and scale your business. Today, he’ll tell you why. In this episode, Rick will walk you through why Facebook is such a powerful platform for capturing an audience, address some common misconceptions, and get you started building successful ads of your own. If forking over advertising dollars to a platform like Facebook makes you nervous, listen in—Rick has a few things you’ll definitely want to hear. I’ll be learning right alongside you, […]

I’ve never run a paid advertisement for my own products. Why? Well, simply because I’ve never had any products of my own to sell. One of my goals for 2017 is to shift the higher percentage of income coming from affiliate marketing (selling the products of others for a commission) to earnings generated from my own stuff. The primary driver for that shift will be my online courses. I’ve launched a couple of online courses this year already, and with the reopening of those courses over the span of the next few months, it’s about time I finally add some fuel to the furnace and pay for advertisements, something many successful entrepreneurs say they wish they had done sooner. I’ve run ads for non-product things before, such as boosted posts on Facebook, or ads to increase the number of fans on my business page, but I’ve never run ads as […]

Last week, I published a super-detailed post sharing everything that was involved in getting my book Will It Fly? ready for liftoff. The post covered a wide range of topics, from how I validated the idea for the book and how I wrote it, to how I found people to help edit it and how much money I spent along the way. Today, in part two, I’ll be sharing how Will It Fly? was released into the wild with the goal of producing optimal results. In other words, all of the behind-the-scenes stuff that went into the marketing and distribution of the book. I’m going into so much detail because I hope this will help you plan your own next book, course, or product launch. Will It Fly? was written to help you get started building the business of your dreams, and I want this post to be one more […]

Today’s guest has one of the most amazing transformation stories I’ve heard. She’s Kimra Luna, self-proclaimed “freedom hacker” from KimraLuna.com. Like a lot of us, life threw Kimra a few curveballs—just a few years ago, she and her husband found themselves on welfare with two young children, living in an unfamiliar town. Kimra turned to blogging, with a dream of making money online. In less than a year, she had done just that. Kimra’s here to share how she grew her thriving online business from scratch. She’ll offer up her tips for hosting awesome webinars, building your authority online, and harnessing the power of Facebook ads—all while staying true to your unique, authentic self. I can’t wait for you to hear Kimra’s seriously inspiring story. Let’s do it! Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment […]

Step 2 to building your social media empire is all about using Facebook Ads to build your Page audience. If you have not read Step 1 yet (Find Your Niche and Create Your Accounts), please read that become you continue. In the 3 days since I created my new Facebook Page, I have accumulated over 150 Likes after having spent $7.05 on Facebook Ads. There are a few key takeaways from this data: You do not have to have a big ad budget to begin your testing. I have my daily budget set at $3 for this ad campaign. Every day, my cost per Like is decreasing because Facebook is optimizing who they show my ad to based on the data they’re collecting on who is responding well to my ad (Liking my Page). I was able to successfully reach $0.03 per Like in just 3 days with the […]

The Internet landscape is constantly evolving which means the best sources of traffic for affiliates is constantly changing too. Where can affiliates find good traffic in 2017? There are 5 specific traffic sources that I recommend affiliates test this year. These are all sources I have been running traffic with for the past few months and that I have had some success with. I will explain what types of affiliate offers I’ve been running and how affiliate friendly each source is. Let’s start with Bing Ads. Favorite Search Traffic Source for Affiliate Marketers – Bing Ads Bing Ads is not a new traffic source for affiliates. Bing has been trying to compete with Google for years. I do not think there is any doubt which company offers a better overall search experience, but there are still millions of people using Bing every single day. One thing that Bing definitely has going […]

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